Topic: Back to School Activities

  • Time Capsule Activity: A Fun Project for the First Week of School

    Time Capsule Activity: A Fun Project for the First Week of School

    Your students will love creating this unique and creative time capsule project!

    Creating a Time Capsule is an awesome critical thinking and fun writing activity to do with students! It works especially well at the end of the year to create a special keepsake! Teachers love it because it’s meaningful and students love it because it’s a creative project that’s all about them!

    After learning about two famous Time Capsules, students create their very own personal Time Capsule to lock up and discover in the future. There are seven parts of the Time Capsule that they will complete during class. Part six is collecting photos or small objects to place into their Time Capsule.

    Part One: Introducing Me!
    Part Two: In My World
    Part Three: The People in My Life
    Part Four: My Favorite Things
    Part Five: A Look Into The Future
    Part Six: A Secret Stash
    Part Seven: A Letter to Kids in the Future!

    Students love creating and writing the different parts as they “build” their own Time Capsule to their future self! For younger students (or if you’re limited on time) you might want to do only one of the pages for each part to complete it more quickly.

    Also, enclosed is a letter to send home to parents with their Time Capsules explaining the project and asking them to put it in a safe place for several years, or until they graduate from high school.

    What a great thinking and fun writing activity to do at the beginning of the school year and continue all year long OR to keep students thinking and motivated during the last weeks of school!

  • Open House PowerPoint and Meet the Teacher Night Activities (Study Buddy Design)

    Open House PowerPoint and Meet the Teacher Night Activities (Study Buddy Design)

    This Open House PowerPoint for Parent Night or Meet the Teacher matches my Back to School Welcome Letters! Welcome your families back to school with this informative and creative slideshow especially geared for elementary grade levels.

    With 24 slides to include all the information that parents need to know to help their child have a successful year. Best of all it’s EDITABLE! This cute design includes 7 Student Study-Buddies with a fun multi-colored background.

    The pre-made template has 24 slides with information on the following:
    ✔ Birthdays
    ✔ Homework Folders
    ✔ Reading Program
    ✔ Weekly Reading Log
    ✔ Vocabulary
    ✔ Writer’s Workshop
    ✔ Math
    ✔ Science
    ✔ Social Studies
    ✔ Field Trips
    ✔ Assessments
    ✔ Classroom Celebrations
    ✔ Volunteer Signups
    ✔ Parent Resources
    ✔ Student Supplies
    ✔ Homework
    ✔ Before You Leave
    ✔ Blank Slides

    All of the text on every slide is EDITABLE so you can personalize it just for you and your classroom. However, the design template and clip art are not editable.

    Looking for some free fonts to personalize it even more? Check out the following TpT artists and stores:
    ✔ Krista Walden
    ✔ Graphics From the Pond
    ✔ KB3Teach

  • Open House PowerPoint: Meet the Teacher Night

    Open House PowerPoint: Meet the Teacher Night

    This Open House PowerPoint for Parent Night or Meet the Teacher matches my Back to School Welcome Letter! Welcome your families back to school with this informative and creative slideshow especially geared for elementary grade levels.

    With 24 slides to include all the information that parents need to know to help their child have a successful year. Best of all it’s EDITABLE!

    The pre-made template has 24 slides with information on the following:
    ✔ Birthdays
    ✔ Homework Folders
    ✔ Reading Program
    ✔ Weekly Reading Log
    ✔ Vocabulary
    ✔ Writer’s Workshop
    ✔ Math
    ✔ Science
    ✔ Social Studies
    ✔ Field Trips
    ✔ Assessments
    ✔ Classroom Celebrations
    ✔ Volunteer Signups
    ✔ Parent Resources
    ✔ Student Supplies
    ✔ Homework
    ✔ Before You Leave
    ✔ Blank Slides

    All of the text on every slide is EDITABLE so you can personalize it just for you and your classroom. However, the design template and clip art are not editable.

    Looking for some free fonts to personalize it even more? Check out the following TpT artists and stores:
    ✔ Krista Walden
    ✔ Graphics From the Pond
    ✔ KB3Teach

  • Open House PowerPoint: Meet the Teacher Night (Country Schoolhouse Design)

    Open House PowerPoint: Meet the Teacher Night (Country Schoolhouse Design)

    This Open House PowerPoint for Parent Night or Meet the Teacher matches my Back to School Welcome Letters! Welcome your families back to school with this informative and creative slideshow especially geared for elementary grade levels.

    With 24 slides to include all the information that parents need to know to help their child have a successful year. Best of all it’s EDITABLE! This cute design includes a schoolhouse in a country setting with a school bus and students.

    The pre-made template has 24 slides with information on the following:
    ✔ Birthdays
    ✔ Homework Folders
    ✔ Reading Program
    ✔ Weekly Reading Log
    ✔ Vocabulary
    ✔ Writer’s Workshop
    ✔ Math
    ✔ Science
    ✔ Social Studies
    ✔ Field Trips
    ✔ Assessments
    ✔ Classroom Celebrations
    ✔ Volunteer Signups
    ✔ Parent Resources
    ✔ Student Supplies
    ✔ Homework
    ✔ Before You Leave
    ✔ Blank Slides

    All of the text on every slide is EDITABLE so you can personalize it just for you and your classroom. However, the design template and clip art are not editable.

    Looking for some free fonts to personalize it even more? Check out the following TpT artists and stores:
    ✔ Krista Walden
    ✔ Graphics From the Pond
    ✔ KB3Teach

  • Geography Activities with 12 Major Landforms and Flip Book

    Geography Activities with 12 Major Landforms and Flip Book

    This fun unit is perfect for the back to school season to introduce 12 major landforms and reinforce geography skills! This pack includes 12 major landforms with reading passages, organizers, vocabulary posters, flip book, and a unit test.

    This activity pack is perfect for introducing and reviewing geography skills through creative hands-on activities. Students will love creating this geography flip book in centers or social studies stations. All the activities in this pack will reinforce and expand their understanding of geography and landforms.

    Students will learn and review the main concepts of geography including these main concepts:
    ✔ Geography
    ✔ Culture
    ✔ Landforms
    ✔ Natural Resources:
    ✔ Renewable Resources
    ✔ Non-Renewable Resources
    ✔ Climates: Tropical, Temperate, and Polar

    There are 12 landforms with corresponding landform organizers included for:
    ✔ Island
    ✔ Lakes
    ✔ Valley
    ✔ Volcano
    ✔ Rivers
    ✔ Peninsula
    ✔ Glaciers
    ✔ Mountains
    ✔ Canyons
    ✔ Oceans
    ✔ Swamps and Marshes
    ✔ Delta

    There are many interactive student activities including:
    ✔ What Landform am I?
    ✔ Color the Facts About Geography Activity
    ✔ Label the World Map
    ✔ Cut and Sort Activity about rivers, oceans, and lakes
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary
    ✔ Geography Flipbook
    ✔ 12 Landform Organizers
    ✔ Unit Test with Answer Key

    There are four main activities:
    Read. Connect. Create.

    Vocabulary:
    Introduce and review the vocabulary words using the colorful vocabulary posters with real-life photos. These posters are excellent for bulletin boards too! Have students cut, glue, and define the vocabulary words using the flip flaps.

    Reading:
    Read the passages about Geography, Natural Resources, and three main climates. Complete the activities that go along with those articles.

    Landforms:
    Create a learning station for each of the 12 landforms included in this unit. Be sure to put the reading passage, photo poster, and graphic organizer at each station or center. Each article gives a definition of the landform and an example of one so students can form a connection to the information. Have students answer the questions on the organizers. You could have the students work in pairs or group work. Depending on the time allotted and the age of your students, 12 landforms might be too many. In that case, you could have each student learn about 3, 4, or 6 of the landforms and teach each other about the other ones.

    Activities:
    The geography flip book is perfect for centers. Follow the directions included to assemble their flip books correctly. Flipbooks fit perfectly inside a notebook so students can refer back to them.
    Bonus: A Location Organizer and Landform Organizer are included. These can be folded as a brochure and glued into their interactive notebooks. Just cut out, fold into thirds, dot the back of the middle section of the brochure with glue, and hold in place in their notebooks until dry. Students could add more information to the outside folds or page.

    ✔ For Upper Elementary Grades
    ✔ Great for Core Knowledge
    ✔ Common Core Aligned

  • First Week of School Activities for 6th Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 6th Grade

    Welcome your students to the 6th grade with these fun activities. It includes several activities for the first week of school that are specifically designed for sixth graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 6th Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 6th Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ Goal-Setting Activities
    ✔ Getting to Know You Student Activities
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 6th Grade Banner

  • First Week of School Activities for 5th Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 5th Grade

    Welcome your students to the 5th grade with these fun activities. It includes several activities for the first week of school that are specifically designed for fifth graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 5th Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 5th Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ Goal-Setting Activities
    ✔ All About Me Activities
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 5th Grade Banner

  • First Week of School Activities for 4th Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 4th Grade

    Welcome your students to the 4th grade with these fun activities. It includes several activities for the first week of school that are specifically designed for fourth graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 4th Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 4th Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ All About Me Activities
    ✔ Ready.Set.Go! Goal-Setting Activities
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 4th Grade Banner

  • First Week of School Activities for 3rd Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 3rd Grade

    Welcome your students to the 3rd grade with these fun activities. It includes several activities for the first week of school that are specifically designed for third graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 3rd Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 3rd Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ Introducing ME!
    ✔ Ready.Set.Go! Goal-Setting Activities
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 3rd Grade Banner

  • First Week of School Activities for 2nd Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 2nd Grade

    Welcome your students to the second grade with these fun activities! It includes several back to school activities specifically designed for second graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 2nd Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 2nd Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ First Day of School Activity
    ✔ Goal-Setting Activity
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 2nd Grade Banner

  • First Week of School Activities for 1st Grade

    First Week of School Activities for 1st Grade

    Welcome your students to the first grade with these fun activities! It includes several back to school activities specifically designed for 1st graders.

    It includes:
    ✔ Welcome to 1st Grade Flip Book (6-pages)
    ✔ Welcome to 1st Grade Bookmarks
    ✔ Name Poem Activity
    ✔ Subway Art Classroom Rules Poster
    ✔ First Day Activity: Introducing ME
    ✔ Goal-Setting Activity
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ Welcome to 1st Grade Banner

  • Rainbow Polka Dotted Classroom Decor Pack #7: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    Rainbow Polka Dotted Classroom Decor Pack #7: Everything You Need to Set up Your Classroom

    This MEGA Classroom Décor Bundle is a perfect way to encourage a growth mindset while creating a rainbow-colored one-of-a-kind classroom. Many of the pages are EDITABLE so you can add your own personal touches and text! Check out the preview to see all that it includes.

    In this Classroom Décor Bundle you’ll find everything you need to set up your classroom:
    ✔ Growth Mindset Posters Variety Pack of 30
    ✔ Contact Cards & Parent Forms
    ✔ Student Interest Inventory
    ✔ All About My Teacher Activity*
    ✔ When you Enter This Classroom Poster
    ✔ Classroom Rules Posters*
    ✔ First Day Activity: Introducing ME & My Goals
    ✔ How I get to School Chart
    ✔ Classroom Newsletters*
    ✔ Brag Tags
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House PowerPoint Slideshow*
    ✔ Meet the Teacher/Open House Sign-in Forms*
    ✔ Welcome Back to School Letters*
    ✔ Happy Birthday Certificates and Chart*
    ✔ Student Agenda Homework Page
    ✔ Reward Cards
    ✔ Teacher Binder Covers & Spines*
    ✔ Student Binder Covers
    ✔ Classroom Jobs Posters & Recording Sheets
    ✔ Alphabet Posters (Full page and Half page*
    ✔ Cursive Letters Posters
    ✔ Numbers 1-20 (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Centers & Stations Posters (Full page and half page)*
    ✔ Literary Genre Poster Set
    ✔ Reading Strategy Poster Set
    ✔ Welcome Sign/Banner (Two sizes)
    ✔ Minutes in an hour Clock Labels
    ✔ Traffic Light Behavior Signal
    ✔ Positive Notes to Send Home*
    ✔ Word Wall Words: 200 high-frequency words*
    ✔ Desk Plates/Name Tags*
    ✔ Welcome to the 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Kindergarten
    ✔ Calendar Labels: Day, Months, Numbers, & Holidays
    ✔ Daily Schedule Cards: Subjects and Specials*
    ✔ Supply Labels come in both Portrait and Landscape
    ✔ Extra Labels (Circles and Squares)
    ✔ And MUCH MORE!
    ***EDITABLE***

    For BEST RESULTS, print the posters on the premium brochure and flyer paper from Office Depot. Using this paper gives the posters a vibrant look that really makes the colors pop!

    Mix and match the colors and designs from our other décor bundles to create a one-of-a-kind classroom. If you like these colorful designs, you might also like our other Classroom Décor Packs, Alphabet Photo Posters, and Growth Mindset Class Awards Variety Pack.